Towards sustainability in world fisheries

By Daniel Pauly, Villy Christensen, S. Guénette, T. Pitcher, U. R. Sumaila, Carl J Walters, R. Watson, D. Zeller. Nature, 2002

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Fisheries have rarely been 'sustainable'. Rather, fishing has induced serial depletions, long masked by improved technology, geographic expansion and exploitation of previously spurned species lower in the food web. With global catches declining since the late 1980s, continuation of present trends will lead to supply shortfall, for which aquaculture cannot be expected to compensate, and may well exacerbate. Reducing fishing capacity to appropriate levels will require strong reductions of subsidies. Zoning the oceans into unfished marine reserves and areas with limited levels of fishing effort would allow sustainable fisheries, based on resources embedded in functional, diverse ecosystems.

Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Underestimating the benefits of marine protected areas for the replenishment of fished populations (2019, background): “Intense debate about the sustainability of wild fisheries continues, but improving their sustainability is a common goal (Pauly et al. 2002; Kroodsma et al. 2018).”
State of the World’s Fisheries (2003, background): “Concern about the failure of traditional management systems has led to increasing calls for completely new methods to manage fisheries (95).”
An integrated ecosystem approach for assessing the potential role of cultivated bivalve shells as part of the carbon trading system (2015, background): “This contribution must be achieved by (1) the recovery of wild fisheries and adjusting the global fishing effort to sustainable levels (Pauly et al. 2002), and (2) farming the ocean while maintaining environmental health and sustainability (Marra 2005, Byron & Costa-Pierce 2013).”
Effect of replacing fishmeal and oil with simple or complex mixtures of vegetable ingredients in diets fed to Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) (2006, background): “Shortly after the Second World War, fishing fleets became outfitted with freezer trawlers, radar and acoustic fish finders (Pauly et al., 2002).”
Overfishing of Inland Waters (2005, background): “O verexploitation of the world's fisheries is the subject of much recent concern (FAO 2002, Pauly et al. 2002, Hilborn et al. 2003).”
Intergenerational cost–benefit analysis and marine ecosystem restoration (2004, background): “It is widely acknowledged that the world’s fish stocks and fisheries are in crisis (Pauly et al. 1998; FAO 2000; Jackson et al. 2001; Pauly et al. 2002; Myers and Worm 2003).”
Intergenerational discounting: a new intuitive approach (2005, background): “In particular, high discount rates favor myopic policies or projects that continue to exaggerate unsustainable resource use such as global overfishing (see for example, Pauly et al., 2002; Koopmans, 1974; Clark, 1973).”
Application of game theory to fisheries over three decades (2010, background): “Many scientists agree that we are facing a crisis in world fishries, with some researchers having estimated a 90% removal of redatory fish globally (Myers andWorm, 2003), and warning that hortfalls in the supply of fish couldhavedevastating consequences or human populations (Pauly et al., 2002).”
Effects of body size, age and maturity stage on diet in a large shark: ecological and applied implications (2008, background): “Any plan to conserve or restore ecosystem functioning—the goal of the ecosystemic approach to fisheries management (Pauly et al. 2002; Myers and Ottensmeyer 2005)—should aim to maintain the largest shark individuals.”
Integrated assessment of ecosystem-scale carrying capacity in shellfish growing areas (2008, background): “Aquaculture is increasing in importance due to the overexploitation of marine resources (Naylor et al., 2000; Watson et al., 2001; Pauly et al., 2002; FAO, 2004), worsened by the progressive environmental degradation of many marine areas (Xiao et al.”
Future protein supply (2011, background): “In addition, increased water use and pollution are not good news for either terrestrial or aquatic biodiversity, and the latter is already under pressure from fisheries (Pauly et al., 2002).”
Seasonal, diel, and tidal movements of green jobfish (Aprion virescens, Lutjanidae) at remote Hawaiian atolls: implications for marine protected area design (2007, methodology): “tools for managing Wshery-targeted species and buVering against broader ecosystem eVects of over Wshing (e.g., Pauly et al. 2002; Russ 2002; Halpern 2003; Russ et al. 2004).”
AN EVALUATION OF THE EVIDENCE FOR LINKAGES BETWEEN MANGROVES AND FISHERIES: A SYNTHESIS OF THE LITERATURE AND IDENTIFICATION OF RESEARCH DIRECTIONS (2005, background): “Fishery statistics are provided to the FAO by member countries (Pauly et al. 2002) and the accuracy of the data is highly variable among countries.”